Tag: David whyte
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Don’t break the chain, suffering to greatness, and blessings
A blessing is wishing something for someone that they didn’t even know they needed themselves.
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Growing tired, your tribe of mentors, and “the path”
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
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The heartbreak of work
Our work will inevitably break our hearts in the same way that a marriage will, for example, through death or divorce
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Invisible help
“Invisible help is the help we as yet do not know we need.” David Whyte Often we need help, but for whatever reason, we are not yet ready to admit it. We think we can power on and do it all by ourselves. You know the new employee trying to prove himself but is struggling…
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The disease of ambition
“The ease of having an ambition is that it can be explained to others; the very disease of ambition is that it can be so easily explained to others.” David Whyte I have been pondering David Whyte’s thought-provoking chapter on ‘Ambition’ in his book Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. It…
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The ancestor of your future happiness
“All of us can think of moments in our life where we picked up that phone, we had the courageous conversation, we went out the door against all logic, and we transformed our life. And you look back, and you say if I hadn’t done that in that moment, my life would be irredeemably impoverished. So the…